In this article I am going to share with you some of the specific ways Hypnotherapy Hertfordshire can help you to cease smoking, for good. With the smoking ban fast approaching in the UK (July 1st 2007), many people are beginning to feel the social pressures to stop smoking. The benefits of stopping smoking are immeasurable. Without question you’ll be much healthier and perhaps more importantly free from the control you should have felt by being at the mercy of a horrible, smelly and pricey habit. Hypnotherapy Hertfordshire is a hypnotherapy practice based in Aldbury, near Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire. At Hypnotherapy Hertfordshire, you are supported to give up smoking with ease and also quickly. What this means is there won’t be months of relying on costly nicotine patches and other replacement therapies, which in my view, just keep the physical addiction going, longer then necessary.

When you make the decision to seek support from Hypnotherapy Hertfordshire to help you stop smoking, we take steps to ensure that you are given the best possible chance of quitting. One of the ways in which Hypnotherapy, Hertfordshire, does this is by assessing your motivation to stop. From experience, it is clear to us that you must want to halt smoking now and you must also want to do this for yourself. The therapist will help you identify whether this is the case. Clients who are not considered motivated enough will be advised to come back, when the time is right. That way you are not wasting money and we are not wasting out time!

At Hypnotherapy Hertfordshire, we use various different hypnotherapy techniques to aid our clients so that they’re able to cease smoking. The techniques used depend on the unique needs of the client. Some of the techniques include:

Identifying and consolidating your reasons to cease smoking- At Hypnotherapy Hertfordshire, we’ve many facts and information about the negative effects of smoking on the mind and body. The hypnotherapist spends time with you, supporting you in applying this information to yourself and your life. The result is that perhaps for the first time, you can appreciate that harm from smoking, isn’t something that happens to other people. At this stage in the session you’ll start to will feel the strong desire to move away from smoking forever.

Identifying the benefits and positive rewards of stopping smoking – its not all doom and gloom! It is also very important to begin focusing on what you’ll gain by stopping smoking and how your life will improve massively for the superior. The therapist will also spend time with you, discussing and exploring the positive impact quitting smoking and remaining a non-smoker will have on your life. You’ll also be guided to set goals for the future. These will focus on things you would not have been able to do as a non-smoker. You’ll be amazed at the new options you’ve for resting, becoming more healthy, going to new places and of course spending all that extra money you will save by stopping smoking.

Hypnosis with positive recommendation. Of course, part of your stopping smoking treatment at Hypnotherapy Herts will involve you getting to sit back and relax whilst your unconscious mind does the learning! During this process you will be guided to a deep state of relaxation, whilst the therapist also directs your unconscious mind with recommendations and metaphors to stop smoking. You will also be supported to develop positive coping strategies. Acknowledge that your smoking habit has served a purpose in the past, in that it has likely been a method for coping. Hypnotherapy and NLP techniques (neuro linguistic programming) will enable you to develop positive coping strategies that serve you in the present and future. One of the new positive coping strategies could be learning to use an anchor. If the therapist feels that you would benefit from having an anchor created, this will also be part of the stop smoking treatment session at Hypnotherapy, Hertfordshire. An anchor, is basically a positive resource of emotions that you can fire off, when you need extra emotional strength to cope.

There are also several formal change techniques, which are effective for helping you to cease smoking. The most appropriate technique will depend on your one-of-a-kind problem. At Hypnotherapy, Hertfordshire, these techniques are used if required. Examples include: The Swish Technique which can be used if you wish to replace a highly contextualised problem behaviour with a more positive behaviour. It works to eliminate behaviours that occur in specific situations after specific triggers. 2) Parts Integration is very useful at uncovering the positive intention of your smoking habit and dealing with incongruent behaviour and feelings. 3) Like To Dislike – This technique is based on information about how we code memories in our brain. We tend to code things we like in a different way to things we do not like. So, its possible to recode your memory of smoking into something that you find disgusting.

Hypnotherapy Hertfordshire provides a free consultation to those who make the decision to use Hypnotherapy Hertfordshire to halt smoking. In addition, free support for the next six months is provided. This means that at any time within six months you should you start smoking again, we will work for free to get you to quit smoking again. Hypnotherapy, Hertfordshire works on the basis that it is possible to have you stop smoking in one session. This is because we deal with all that aspects of your habit in this session, so that you leave a non-smoker and are done with that old habit.

Content

Innate in each and every one of us is the desire to be happy and we spend our lives in pursuit of it. For many of us, happiness is an elusive state. We get a taste of it now and then, and just when we think we have it in our hands, it vanishes — again. But for the relative few, happiness is an altogether different experience.

Some people are almost always happy, even when something bad happens, they bounce back quicker than most, and despite their difficulties, still manage a buoyant disposition. We have all met individuals like this, perhaps even envied them? They seem ‘blessed’, lucky. But the truth is they are neither: more blessed nor luckier than the rest of us. But they do have something going for them that the rest of us don’t: the habit of happiness.

Most of us make the mistake of thinking that happiness is derived from external circumstances. How many times have you thought that: if only a certain thing would happen, or if only you could have the career you want, or the partner you want, or any of the other things that you want, then you would be happy? And how many times have you acquired those things and for a moment felt happy because of them, only to find that your happiness soon evaporated and you were left wanting again? This is a common pattern for most of us and we play it out over and over. It starts when we are children and for those of us who do not learn how to overcome it, it inevitably robs us of true happiness.

True happiness can’t be achieved by accumulating stuff, because this kind of ‘happiness’ is based on an endless sense of wanting that never gets fulfilled. It is a merry go-round. This is not to state that achieving certain things in life is not desirable and not worth pursuing, indeed acquiring certain things certainly greases the ride, but to depend on them for your happiness will only prove fatal to it in the long run. For the great truth about happiness is that it isn’t an external event, nor is it dependent on external events, happiness is an internal point of view and it is an internal point of view that one can train oneself to maintain, becoming habituated to it.

The degree to which a person has a proclivity towards being happy or sad is based on one thing – mental conditioning. It was once thought that when we were born, our brains were hard set and so too were our personal tendencies. We now know this isn’t true. For example we know that different areas of the brain cater to different sensory experiences and mental states. In the case of happiness this happens in “ the left anterior portion of the brain”. The Intention Experiment, (Lynne McTaggart).

We also know that by practicing certain ways of thinking, causing certain ways of feeling, the areas of our brain associated with those thoughts and mental says will be developed and the natural tendency will be to continue to think in that way, be it good for us or not. This is because when we’re repetitive, or practice something consistently, the brain develops more neurons to dedicate to that process making the doing of it faster, more efficient, and easier. Simply put, you can develop your brain so that you can, in time, become habitually happy.

To develop a state of habitual happiness, the first thing one must do is to slowly eliminate toxic thoughts such as: judgement, fear, worry, envy, jealousy, hatred and the like, replacing them with a persistent practice of positive thoughts, the more loving and compassionate the better. This can be very hard in the beginning, because believing the positive thoughts might seem impossible at first. This does not matter remain persistent with them. In time you’ll come to believe them, because belief is also a result of habitual thought patterns and can be changed just like any other internal point of view.

The second thing that’ll accelerate the development of the ‘happy part of the brain‘ is the practice of slowing down one’s brainwave frequencies. In our usual awakened state, we’re mostly in the higher Beta brainwave frequency. In this range our thoughts will be flowing rapidly and will tend to be colored in a more negative way. In this frequency range we experience anxiety, fear, anger and so forth. But when we slow down our brainwaves we become deeply relaxed and our thinking becomes more life positive.

There are a variety of ways that one can slow down their brainwave frequency, but by far, the most effective one is the meditative say. Traditional meditation is a powerful transformer of the mind, but it isn’t necessary to assume a traditional practice (although the author highly recommends it) in order to slow down one’s brainwaves. Martial arts is a highly effective practice, and is in fact considered a form of meditation, similarly chanting, or becoming deeply engrossed in something you are passionate about will achieve the right result. If none of these appeal, there are also simple to use ‘plug and play’ solutions such as guided meditation recordings and binaural beats (designed to induce meditative states).

Of course developing a state of habitual happiness is a process and is not one that you can cheat on. In time it will become effortless, but in the beginning, like anything else worth the doing, time, practice and persistence are key. How long you might ask? Everyone’s process is unique. This author felt subtle change after only a few weeks. Two years later and she’s naturally high most of the time.

Striving for a conditioned state of habitual happiness, is truly a way to discovering one’s internal pot of gold. It is priceless and will last a lifetime.

For more information about positive mind states, please visit: www.positivemindstates.com

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